Proof of the dangers of new technology

"A horse pulling a carriage downtown Friday evening was apparently spooked and flipped the carriage with a family of five inside."

You know, ever since they stopped using dredges and sleds in favor of "wheels", I've been warning people that something like this could happen. Being incredibly old, I can not see a single reason why we would combine the speed of a horse with the instability and raw rolling power of wheels on an axle. It is simply beyond me.

Also, I suspect these people were traveling at greater than 4 miles (per the new measuring system) per hour, which is unsafe regardless.